Like Brian Strait before him, the New York Islanders have seen enough in summer free agent signing Colin McDonald to ink the forward to a two-year extension through 2014-15. Arthur Staple of Newsday reports the terms as one-way both years, for $600,000 and then $675,000. That's a little above minimum: The CBA-mandated minimum NHL salary for 2013-14 and 2014-15 is $550,000.

Those figures would actually represent a pay drop for McDonald, as he's on a $700,000 NHL salary this season -- but on a two-way deal, so his AHL salary was a re-entry waiver-exempt max of $105,000.